I think I read that the 1200 limit only applies to residences. Detached structures like barns, garages and sheds will still be cool to rock higher wattages.
Here is the Lake Co proposed ordinance:
http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Assets/CDD/Planning+Documents/2+Zoning+Ord+Amend-June+2011-CULTIVATION.pdf
Short version:
12 total, 6 mature, 100 sq-ft max indoor garden, 12k max,
OK fellas, at the risk of bruising a few egos here, CC is gonna weigh in with some simple "cowboy logic". I dont really get the purpose of having a "skywatch" (again, no disrespect intended) when there is nothing you can do about it anyway. Unless of course, you happen to have an RPG on hand and youre willing to go to the next level. LOL In other words, if the "Death From Above" boys come flying over your neck of the woods, whether youre doing your business in middle suburbia or out in rural Podunk County, other than being completley legal, what are you gonna do? Kill your garden? Move it? Scurry out and unroll the camo netting? In my mind, it's a bit late to go on the defense if youve just been buzzed. If you dont possess the aforementioned RPG, ya gonna break out the Daisy Red Rider and fire a couple of shots of double load bb's across the bird's windshield? Hell, you can't even be 100% sure you are the subject of their interest or if they are just trying to find a lost monkey that escaped from the City Zoo the day before.